1. avowal, avouchment, affirmation -- (a statement asserting the existence or the truth of something)
2. affirmation, assertion, statement -- (the act of affirming or asserting or stating something)
3. affirmation -- ((religion) a solemn declaration that serves the same purpose as an oath (if an oath is objectionable to the person on religious or ethical grounds))
4. affirmation -- (a judgment by a higher court that the judgment of a lower court was correct and should stand)

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Was this affirmation apprehended by Bloo. - from Ulysses by James Joyce

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Man lives by affirmation even more than by bread. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

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he wrote that Medina's affirmation that printing took place i. - from Doctrina Christiana by Anonymous

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This affirmation appeared to dispel all doubts with regard to the baldric. - from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, Pere

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It was not an affirmation that he made, but a question which he put to himsel. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

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The sister's affirmation was for Javert so decisive a thing that he did not even observe the singularity of that candle which had but just been extinguished, and which was still smoking on the table. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

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Stephen dissented openly from Bloom's views on the importance of dietary and civic selfhelp while Bloom dissented tacitly from Stephen's views on the eternal affirmation of the spirit of man in literature. - from Ulysses by James Joyce

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Symbol of the apostles in the mass for pope Marcellus, the voices blended, singing alone loud in affirmation and behind their chant the vigilant angel of the church militant disarmed and menaced her heresiarchs. - from Ulysses by James Joyce

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"That is saying too much such hazardous affirmations are a proof of the excitement under which you labour.. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

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With indirect and direct verbal allusions or affirmations with subdued affection and admiration with description with impediment with suggestion. - from Ulysses by James Joyce

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For almost a hundred and fifty years no historian or bibliographer wrote anything to challenge the basic affirmations of Chirino, Fernndez and Aduarte. - from Doctrina Christiana by Anonymous

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The sort of affirmations which he seemed to fling out before him at random came like hiccoughs, and to each he added the gesture of a wood-cutter who is splitting wood. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo